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1. Full Date of Act	1348 C.E.
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Ordinance “De solutione census per Judaeorum” issued by Carl IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Czech Republic [Provisional]
4. Text of Act	“[…] Should a Jew receive a pledge in exchange to the debt owed to him, he may not sell it without acquiring authorisation and consent […] or be punished with disfavor and the confiscation of the pledge itself.”
5. Source	Stein, Abraham (Rabbi in Radnitz): Die Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen: Nach amtlichen gedruckten und ungedruckten Quellen Bearbeitet; (“The History of the Jews of Bohemia: Edited according to Official Printed and Unprinted Sources”); (Brünn; 1904)
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1. Full Date of Act	Jan. 4, 1348
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ “Gifting of Jews” to the city of Worms issued by Charles IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Charles gifts/transfers the Jews of Worms to the local city government.
5. Source	The Jewish Encyclopedia: The History, Religion Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; edited by Isidore Singer; Volume XII. (New York/London);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a summary of the original text, which can be found in the City Archive of Worms, Dept. 1 A II - 0153a-b.

1. Full Date of Act	Feb. 8, 1348
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Alcala Ordinance by Alfonso XI. Title IX, Law II. Regarding Christians not having to pay their debts to Jews after a period of six years
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Spain
4. Text of Act	(…) And therefore we order and establish that (…) if seven years have not passed that the demands of the day that period in which the debt made in compliance with the term had to be paid; and after the plaintiff is not heard; and the debts and the demands that the Jews would have for reasons of contracts made by the Christians, which cannot be sued, nor delivered after six years of the term they were to be paid.
5. Source	“The ordinances of Laws that D. Alfonso XI made in the Courts of Alcala de Henares in the year One Thousand Three Hundred and Forty Eight. Published with notes and speech about the state of Jews in Spain,” (El ordenamiento de leyes que D. Alfonso XI hizo en las Cortes de Alcalá de Henares el año de mil trescientos y quarenta y ocho), by doctors. Dr. Ignacio Jordan de Asso Y Del Rio, and Dr. Miguel de Manuel y Rodriguez. Accessed online.
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 8, 1348
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Jewish Privilege” issued by Carl IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Czech Republic
4. Text of Act	[…] Jews are permitted to settle in Neustadt […] however, only those from 'Altstadt' and the 'Judengasse' (Jewish-Quarters) […] they can also enjoy the 12-year tax-exemption, if they build 'solid' houses/buildings (houses built out of stone) […]
5. Source	Stein, Abraham (Rabbi in Radnitz): Die Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen: Nach amtlichen gedruckten und ungedruckten Quellen Bearbeitet; (“The History of the Jews of Bohemia: Edited according to Official Printed and Unprinted Sources”); (Brünn; 1904);
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 28, 1348
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of King Charles IV of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia
4. Text of Act	Charles IV, King of Bohemia, permits the citizens of Brno to collect* the tributes of 100 Schock [pennies] which the Jews of Brno submit to the royal chamber annually and are given to the King Louis of Hungary and Heinrich von Lichtenburg in his name, and from any new Jew who settles in the city, so long as they understand that this does not free them of the payments that are due to the King of Hungary and the Lord of Lichtenburg.
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels - und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.); (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher This is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text. The Latin text can be found in Volume VII of the “Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae.” The original document was written and signed in Prague. This permission to “collect” the levies placed on Jews, ultimately, gave the city permission to raise taxes on them as they saw fit.

1. Full Date of Act	Apr. 12, 1348
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Extract of the Privilege of Holy Roman King Charles IV (‘Caroli IV’) for the Jews in Worms"
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free Imperial City of Worms/Holy Roman Empire
4. Text of Act	We, Charles (‘Carl’), Roman King by the grace of God […] have given the Jews and the Jewry of Worms, together with their belongings and their use and right [over them] … which belong to Us and Our ancestors of the empire […] to the citizens of Worms […] they may do with the Jews and Jewry of Worms as they please […]. And we vow not to pledge or sell the Jews and Jewry whom we have gifted and given to the citizens of Worms to anyone in the future […].
5. Source	Des Reichs-Stättischen Hand-Buchs. Zweyter Theil. (Hand-book of the Imperial Cities. Second part.); (Tübingen; 1733);
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1. Full Date of Act	Nov. 24, 1348
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of King Charles IV of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia
4. Text of Act	Charles IV, King of Bohemia, transfers the revenues brought in by his chamber-servants, the Jews from Wroclaw and [Neumarkt], to the councilmen and citizens of Wroclaw in compensation for the 500 Mark pennies which they have collected for the purpose of repurchasing the city of [Frankenstein].
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels - und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.) (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher This is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text. The Latin text can be found in Volume VII of the “Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae.”

1. Full Date of Act	1349
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Order issued by the Council in Strasbourg
3. Geography of Act	France
4. Text of Act	Commentary from other sources: 1) “The Christian mobs in Europe were not carrying out a religious mandate. In fact, they were openly defying the pope and other religious leaders. They were also defying their own political leaders. For example, on February 9, 1349, the town council of Strasbourg, a city in present-day France, voted to protect local Jews from attack. That evening, the city's guilds overthrew the council and put a new one in its place. The new councilmen promptly ordered the arrest of all Jews.” Phyllis Goldstein: “A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism.” p. 98 2) “Nevertheless they tortured a number of Jews in Berne and Zofingen [Switzerland] who then admitted that they had put poison into many wells, and they also found the poison in the wells. Thereupon they burnt the Jews in many towns and wrote of this affair to Strasbourg, Freiburg, and Basel in order that they too should burn their Jews. But the leaders in these three cities in whose hands the government lay did not believe that anything ought to be done to the Jews. However in Basel the citizens marched to the city-hall and compelled the council to take an oath that they would burn the Jews, and that they would allow no Jew to enter the city for the next two hundred years. Thereupon the Jews were arrested in all these places and a conference was arranged to meet at Benfeld rAlsace, February 8, 1349. The Bishop of Strasbourg [Berthold II], all the feudal lords of Alsace, and representatives of the three above mentioned cities came there. The deputies of the city of Strasbourg were asked what they were going to do with their Jews. Thev answered and said that they knew no evil of them. Then they asked the Strasbourgers why they had closed the wells and put away the buckets, and there was a great indignation and clamor against the deputies from Strasbourg. So finally the Bishop and the lords and the Imperial Cities agreed to do away with the Jews. The result was that they were burnt in many cities, and wherever they were expelled they were caught by the peasants and stabbed to death or drowned...(The town-council of Strasbourg which wanted to save the Jews was deposed on the 9th-10th of February, and the new council gave in to the mob, who then arrested the Jews on Friday, the 13th.).” Paul Halsal: “Jewish History Sourcebook: The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE.” (July 1998)
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1. Full Date of Act	1349
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Ultimatum to Jews”
3. Geography of Act	Republic of Strasbourg
4. Text of Act	Commentary from Other Sources: 1) On Valentine’s Day 1349, Strasbourg’s Jews were taken to the city’s cemetery and given an ultimatum: baptism or death. http://jspacenews.com/february-14-1349-black-death-jewish-ultimatum/
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1. Full Date of Act	1349 C.E.
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Ordinance” issued by Archbishop Ernst von Pardubitz of Prague
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Czech Republic [Provisional]
4. Text of Act	“The appearance, [and] the similarity in the external appearances, which the Jews demonstrate with the Christians in [terms of] clothing, often leads to the danger that Christen men intermingle with Jewish women by mistake and Jews with Christian women. In order that such despicable incidences of such mixing on the pretext of error may no longer be excused […] we order that male Jews shall wear broad hats on their heads and not caps/hoods (‘breite Hüte und nicht Kapuzen’). The women, however, are to wear their hair over their foreheads in a high-coiffed (‘hochfrisiert’) manner under their veil. […] so that they may be distinguishable by such signs from the Christians at all times; if however, the Jews do not adopt such signs within two months of publication of these guidelines as of today, a church ban shall be placed on them and any intercourse/contact with Christians shall be forbidden to them […] and the Lord of each place who does not require such conduct from them shall be punished and the spiritual authority of the state or the village in which such Jews remain who are undistinguishable, shall impose an exclusion on them from all general religious activities until the Jews have obeyed this present order. […]”
5. Source	Steinherz: Samuel: Jahrbuch – Der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Cechoslovakischen Republik; III Jahrgang; (2008); (Yearbook – The Society for the History of the Jews in the Czech Republic, III Year; (2008));
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 2, 1349
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Extract of the Donation-Letter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (‘Caroli IV’)"
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free Imperial City of Worms/Holy Roman Empire
4. Text of Act	We, Charles (‘Carol’), Roman King by the grace of God […] with the power of this letter […] gift the Jewish houses, court/farm-yards, land, (wooden)-stages/platforms/decks (‘Bühnen’) and everything that belong to Jews individually or as a community in and around the city of Worms - whatever the name of the goods may be [… to use by the city …] and do with these possessions what they will [without objection from anyone …].
5. Source	Des Reichs-Stättischen Hand-Buchs. Zweyter Theil. (Hand-book of the Imperial Cities. Second part.); (Tübingen; 1733);
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 29, 1349
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Charles gives all goods and properties of the Jewry in Speyer to the local citizens [for the services they have provided to him in the past and will in the future and for all the damages they have suffered …] and declares that all Jews who will settle [in Speyer] in the future belong to the city as well.
5. Source	Urkunden zur Geschichte der Stadt Speyer. Mit Historischen Verein der Pfalz zu Speyer gewidmet von Heinrich Hilgard-Villard. Gesammelt und herausgegeben von Alfred Hilgard. (Strassburg; 1885); (Official documents regarding the history of the city Speyer. With the Historical Society of the Palatine of Speyer, dedicated by Heinrich Hilgard-Willard. Collected and published by Alfred Hilgard. (Strasbourg; 1885);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the old original text both of which can be found in the cited source. The original can be found in the City-Archive of Speyer.

1. Full Date of Act	Apr. 1, 1349
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Mandate, issued by Emperor Carl IV, to the Jewish moneylenders in Strasbourg and elsewhere in the empire
3. Geography of Act	Present-day France, Germany
4. Text of Act	We, Charles, by God’s grace King of the Romans etc., herewith openly state and proclaim that the noblemen Eberhard and Ulrich of Württemberg, as well as their guarantors, by Our royal grace and the Lord’s power, are released from all debts owed to the Jews, Our chamber servants [‘Kammerknechte,’ i.e., the property of the Emperor), wherever they may have resided or reside now, and namely in the City of Strasbourg, and that all claims to these debts are completely null and void.
5. Source	Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg [Archives of the German State of Baden-Württemberg]. Facsimile of original document: König Karl IV. erläßt den Grafen Eberhard II. und Ulrich IV. alle Schulden bei Juden und löst ihre Bürgen (King Charles IV releases Landgraves Eberhard II and Ulrich IV from all debts to Jews and also releases their loan guarantors). Digital Resources (www.landesarchiv.de), Call Number WR 6413. Article online.
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8. Notes	Researcher for an explanation of Jewish “chamber servitude” in the Middle Ages, see “KAMMERKNECHTSCHAFT” at www.jewishencyclopedia.com.

1. Full Date of Act	May 2, 1349
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Official Document” issued by Margrave Fredrick/Friedrich addressed to the [City] Council of Nordhausen
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	[… we have commanded] the Jews to be burned (‘burnen’) in all of our lands for the great evil that they have committed against the Christians by poisoning the wells […] the people of Nordhausen may now do the same. […]
5. Source	Neue Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiet historisch-antiquarischer Forschung. Herausgegeben von dem Thüringisch-Sächsischen Verein für die Erforschung des vaterländischen Altertums und Erhaltung seiner Denkmale. Elfter Band. (“New Announcements from the Field of Historical-Antiquarian Research. Published by the Thuringian-Saxonian Association for the Study of Patriotic Antiquity and the Preservation of its Monuments. Eleventh Volume.”); (Halle, 1865);
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1. Full Date of Act	Jun. 25, 1349
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of Emperor Charles IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany, Holy Roman Empire
4. Text of Act	Emperor Charles (‘Karl’) IV pledges all Jews who have survived the second Jewish-slaughter (1346) - including their use and service - to the City Council of Frankfurt and the city for 15,200 Pound/Pfund Heller […] along with all of their property in case they were killed or died in the meantime.
5. Source	Kurzer Abriss. Geschichte der Israeliten. Frankfurt a Main. (Short outline. History of the Israelis. Frankfurt a. Main); www.archive.org; Accessed Online;
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the Latin text. The original can be found in Senckenberg’s Selecta Juris et Historiarum.

1. Full Date of Act	1350 C.E.
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Law of evidence issued in Magdeburg
3. Geography of Act	Germany [Provisional]
4. Text of Act	"[…] For about money no Jew’s oath is permissible against Christian persons and no Jew may convict a Christian man about money. […]"
5. Source	Magdeburg-Breslauer Systematisches Schoeffenrecht III, 2, 38.The Jews in Medieval Germany, Chicago 1949, page 262
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1. Full Date of Act	1350
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	"Hebrew and the Practice of Judaism outlawed"
3. Geography of Act	Ethiopia
4. Text of Act	Commentary from other sources: 1) "From the 14th century onward, with the brief exception of the rule of one Jewish emperor named Tewodros II in the 1800’s, the vast majority of Ethiopian Jews were forced to live as powerless and exploited landless peasants." "The History of Ethiopian Jewry;" unitedwithisrael.org
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 4, 1350
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of King Charles IV of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia
4. Text of Act	Charles IV, King of Bohemia confirms to the son of Mathias of Eger, Peter, the Judge of Saaz and his wife Agnes the judicial office/bench in the city of Saaz […] and exert the jurisdiction over the Jews [in the city to them as well].
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels - und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.); (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher This is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text. The Latin text can be found in Volume II of the “Codex Juris municipalis regni Bohemiae.”

1. Full Date of Act	May 18, 1350
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” issued by King Charles IV of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia
4. Text of Act	King Charles of Bohemia declares that – even though the common people in Eger have shown malice in destroying the possessions of the local Jews – he is willing to forgive these misguided sinners and the people of the community of Eger, because the noble/distinguished citizens have made amends to him.
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels - und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 906 bis 1576. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 906 to 1576.); (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher This is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text which can be found in “Privilegia Regalium Civitatum Provincialium Regni Bohemiae; Anorum 1225-1419.”

1. Full Date of Act	Jul. 22, 1350
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ issued by Emperor Charles (‘Karl’) IV
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	We, Charles (‘Karl’), Roman Emperor by the grace of God […] announce and make public with this letter/writ to all who see, hear, or read it […] that we have bestowed our special royal grace upon the nobleman Heinrich Grauen von Hoenstein, and the lords of Sundershusen, our dear loyal, and give all goods/possessions (‘daz Gut’) of the ruined/killed (‘verderbten’) Jews, our chamber-servants […] in Nordhausen […] to the city and the citizens […] Therefore, all communal and private goods/properties of Jews are to be those of the aforementioned citizens […].
5. Source	Förstemann, Ernst Günther: Geschichte der Stadt Nordhausen. Erste Lieferung, bis zum Jahre 1250. (History of the city Nordhausen. First issue, until the year 1250.); (Nordhause; 1827);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above writ was given after a number of Jews were either chased away or killed in Nordhausen.

1. Full Date of Act	Dec. 8, 1350
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Rudolf Otto of Liechtenstein[-Murau]
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Liechtenstein
4. Text of Act	[…] If the Jews want to leave the domain […] they are to apply for permission, however, the people of Liechtenstein promise to give them protection and not to hinder them from departing […] For these rights/privileges, Jews are to pay eight Mark silver annually on St. Jacob’s Day (July 25) as long as they remain in the area of Liechtenstein. Should the Liechtensteiner decide to remove the Jews from their domain, Jews have the right to remain in Murau for one more year while retaining the same rights/privileges.
5. Source	Brugger, Eveline and Brigit Wiedl: Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter. Band 2: 1339-1365. (Innsbruck/Wien/Bozen; 2010); (Regesta pertaining to the history of Jews in Austria during the Middle Ages. Volume 2: 1339-1365); (Innsbruck/Vienna/Bolzano; 2010)
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8. Notes	Researcher The above privilege of Rudolf offers a number of protections for Jews as well.

1. Full Date of Act	1352
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Order issued by Church Council of 1352
3. Geography of Act	Bulgaria
4. Text of Act	Commentary from other sources: 1) “The church's struggle with heresy in Bulgaria also affected the Jews. The Church Council of 1352 excommunicated Jews and heretics. Three Jews were condemned to death on a false charge of blaspheming saints. Although the verdict was repealed by the czar, the mob took vengeance on the accused.” "Virtual Jewish History Tour; Bulgaria." Online article
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1. Full Date of Act	Oct. 6, 1355
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Majesty Carolina” (‘Maiestas Carolina’) of King Charles IV of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia
4. Text of Act	[…] 1) Jews are to pay the[ir] taxes to the Royal Chamber (directly) […] 2) Should a Jew inherit an estate as part of a debt [payment], he may not sell it without the explicit permission of the king. […]
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels - und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.); (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher This is a translation of the German summary of the original Latin text; both can be found in the source cited. The complete Latin text can also be found in Volume II of Jirecek’s Codex Juris Bohemici.

1. Full Date of Act	Nov. 28, 1355
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of King Charles IV of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Kingdom of Bohemia
4. Text of Act	King Charles IV absolves the monks of the cloister of Waldsassen of any debt they owed to Jews – his chamber servants -- who were formerly killed and came to demise in Nuremberg, Eger, or any other place by the fate/doom of God.
5. Source	Geschichte des Egerlandes (bis 1437) von Heinrich Gradl. Mit Unterstützung der Gesellschaft zur Förderung deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen. (Prag; 1893); (History of Eger [land] (until 1437) by Heinrich Gradl. With support of the society for the advancement of German science, art, and literature in Bohemia.); (Prague; 1893)
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8. Notes	Researcher This writ is particularly noteworthy, because the King had absolved the cloister in Waldsassen 10 years earlier of all of their debt owed to Jews. This is translation of a German summary of the original Latin.

1. Full Date of Act	Sep. 2, 1356
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of Emperor Charles IV of Bohemia
3. Geography of Act	Holy Roman Empire
4. Text of Act	Emperor Charles IV ('graciously') declares that all [debts] the citizens or community owe to Jews in the old-town of Prague that are not presented according to current law by St. Giles day (St. Aegidius) become invalid.
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels - und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.); (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher This is a translation of the German summary of the original Latin text which can be found in Volume I of Codex Juris municipalis regni Bohemiae. The original Latin was written and signed in Prague and bears the date September 2-4, 1356.